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Engaging with and measuring informality in the proposed urban sustainable development goal
(Journal African Geographical Review, 2016-03-16)
A unique project by Mistra Urban Futures to test the draft targets and indicators of the proposed Urban Sustainable Development Goal (Goal 11) in five diverse cities in Europe, Africa, and Asia revealed numerous complexities ...
Bridging weak links of solid waste management in informal settlements
(Sage, 2016-10-05)
Many cities in the global South suffer from vast inadequacies and deficiencies in their solid waste management. In the city of Kisumu in Kenya, waste management is fragmented and insufficient with most household waste ...
Developing and testing the urban sustainable development goal’s targets and indicators – a five-city study
(2015-12-23)
The campaign for the inclusion of a specifically urban goal within the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was challenging. Numerous divergent interests were involved, while urban areas worldwide are also ...
Socio-environmental entrepreneurship and the provision of critical services in informal settlements
(International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)., 2016-05)
This paper contributes to the understanding of processes by which small-scale entrepreneurs who provide household waste collection in informal settlements succeed in formalized co-production of such services. The paper ...
How did Kachok dumpsite in Kisumu City develop into a crisis?
(Springer Netherlands, 2018-08-24)
Municipal solid waste management is one of Kenya’s most pressing environmental problems evidenced by the many overflowing dumpsites with their associated environmental and health hazards. Their growth is precipitated by ...
Flow of materials in a market system: food security and environmental sustainability perspective
(Research Gate, 2018-01)
Worldwide, there is a challenge of feeding growing population calling for discussions on flow of food materials in a market system. In Kenya, this discussion has been lacking that could aid in identification of opportunities ...
Inclusive Waste Governance and Grassroots Innovations for Social, Environmental and Economic Change: Report On First Research Outcomes of the Project Recycling Networks & Waste Governance
(Wiego, 2018)
Participants of two research projects (Recycling Networks: Grassroots resilience tackling climate, environmental and poverty challenges (funded by the Swedish Research Council) and Mapping Waste Governance (funded by the ...
Situation Based Solid Wastes Source Characterization: The Kibuye Market and Other Peri-urban Ward Units -Kisumu City (Kenya)
(International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering, 2020-01)
Solid Wastes managemeorigionant (SWs) characterization and 3Rs benefit is lacking and an integral problem of Kisumu city today, at best a scavenging level effort that needs a shift. The study characterized and quantified ...